Connected Device Platform Service

Question

_{Wednesday, July 20, 2016 3:03 PM | 2 votes}

Can anyone tell me exactly what the "Connected Device Platform Service" is and what it does, exactly. I know it is the "This service is used for Connected Devices and Universal Glass scenarios." However, that really doesn't tell me much of anything. I have searched online but haven't been able to pin point this. Any help would be great.

TWI

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_{Sunday, July 24, 2016 12:33 AM}

It is associated with Bluetooth, or Printers & Scanners as well as music players, storage devices, mobile phones, cameras, and many other types of connected devices.

S.Sengupta, Windows Experience MVP

_{Thursday, March 29, 2018 9:58 PM | 1 vote}

Can you tell me 'how' its associated with bluetooth or printers, etc?  If I disable it will my printers, bluetooth, etc stop working?

_{Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:36 PM}

I can tell you that I have a win 10 system that has scanner problems - DevMgr stops identifying the device as an imaging device - and that the same system has an error with its CDPUserSvc_[UID].

It appears that the CDPUserSvc dll is upgraded as part of the Windows 10 1709 patch & a subsequent patch. I say this because my problem machine has a Nov 2016 version of the dll & another v1709 system has a Feb 2018 version of the file.

Hopefully, installing 1709 will resolve my issue.Also, hopefully this helps shed some light on what the Connected Devices Platform Service does.

_{Friday, February 14, 2020 9:35 PM}

Some early sleuthing here: https://www.tenforums.com/general-support/58863-connected-devices-platform-service-what-does-do.html

Which eventually led me to some actual (fairly recent) Microsoft documentation: /en-us/windows/project-rome/devicerelay/how-to-guide-for-android, /en-us/windows/project-rome/devicerelay/how-to-guide-for-android#preliminary-setup-for-the-connected-devices-platform-and-notifications